CASE PaperUnderstanding low achievement in English schoolsThousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates and considers the policy implications of the findings.
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Robert CassenJune 2007
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CASE PaperHelter Skelter: Families, disabled children and the benefit systemFamilies report that DLA makes a significant difference, not just for the disabled child but for the whole family but when repeatedly downrated or withdrawn generates considerable fluctuations in income and high levels of stress and ill health. The report outlines issues that must be addressed if reduce poverty amongst disabled children is to be reduced.
Gabrielle PrestonFebruary 2005
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CASE PaperPoverty and Inequality and Social Policy in ChinaThe paper examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People’s Republic during the period 1949 to 2004. An alternative strategy of a model of social development based on the livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered.
Bingqin Li and David PiachaudNovember 2004
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CASE PaperSchools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising qualityThis paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality of schooling that they provide. The findings suggest that disadvantaged contexts impact on the organisation and processes of schools and that these effects differ significantly from one area to another, in ways that are not reflected by the usual indicators of disadvantage.
Ruth LuptonJanuary 2004
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Published as “Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Low Attainment and a Contextualised Policy Response”, in H.Lauder, P.Brown, J.Dillabough and A.H. Halsey (eds.), Education, Globalization and Social Change, Oxford University Press, 2006

This paper has been published as:'Outsider and Insider Expertise: The response of residents of deprived neighbourhoods to an academic definition of social exclusion', Social Policy and Administration, 36(5), October 2002

A version of Ch.3 by Hills, with Karen Gardiner, was published as 'Policy implications of new data on income mobility', Economic Journal 109(453), 1999; A version of Ch.5 by Arulampalam and Booth was published as 'Training and Labour Market Flexibility: Is there a Trade-off?', The British Journal of Industrial Relations 36(4), 1998; Ch.6 by Green et al was published as 'Are British Workers Getting More Skilled?', in L. Borghans and A. de Grip (eds), The Over-Educated Worker? The Economics of Skill Utilisation, Edward Elgar, 2000

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